Re: (fake) unread messages using nnimap.

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>> I wrote about this some time ago but never saw my mail posted.  Just in case
>> again: I am using Xemacs 21.4.22 Mule, nognus 0.11 and the nnimap backend
>> for reading my mail.  My mail I receive using offlineimap and running the
>> dovecot server on my Laptop. That is why I don't use the agent any more.
>>
>> However in every session gnus indicates in several nnimap groups unread
>> message, where in fact there are not. When visiting the group *no* unread
>> messages are shown and after leaving that group in fact the indication of
>> the unread messages disappears.
>>
>> Does anybody know about this problem and what to do?
>
> It could be any number of things, but one of the common issues with
> offlineimap that I have is:
>
> When you add a new message to a group on the "client" side of an IMAP <=> IMAP
> sync pair, offlineimap will upload it to the server, delete it from the
> client, then add a new copy with an extra header.
>
> Flags are preserved, though, so the message will show an a "new" item, but
> already be read when Gnus looks at it.  This would show in any folder where
> you added messages with IMAP on the client side.
>
> offlineimap with a mutable client side (eg: Maildir) doesn't show this problem
> because it doesn't need to delete and add a message to add the extra header.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel

Hi Daniel,

FYI : I offlineimap between a local dovecot and a remote gmail and am
pretty sure I dont see this behaviour.

regards

r.